Posts Tagged ‘ ER ’

Inside a depressing Chicago hospital emergency room, just after Christmas one year, a naive and hapless accountant named Alan meets an elderly stick-in-the-mud named Jerry, and they strike up an odd companionship. And it is odd, indeed, because Jerry is dead and Alan’s almost there. In the new A.J. Knauss novel “Room Four,” Jerry – who has just passed away at age 87 – is stuck in the ER purgatory because, well, no doctor can…